Weinstein Gallery is honored to announce PLASMA, a solo exhibition by the young urban icon DALeast, on view from March 18–April 22, 2017 at the Weinstein Gallery SOMA location, 444 Clementina Street, San Francisco. Following 14 months of travel across Nepal, India and Bali, this much-anticipated exhibition features new paintings from the transcendental artist the Wall Street Journal recently named one of the “Top Ten Urban Artists to Collect Now.”

PLASMA is the second in a series of solo exhibitions for DALeast and follows his 2014 show LATEN PHOTON at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York. PLASMA (“mouldable substance”), “is an electrically neutral medium of unbound positive and negative particles. Although these particles are unbound, they are not ‘free’ in the sense of not experiencing forces.“ Once again, the artist uses the definition of a scientific property and a spiritual element to challenge both the artist and the observer to explore the infinite concept of nature in the impermanence of form, and the form of impermanence.

ABOUT DALEAST:

Born in 1984 in Wuhan, China and currently based in the world, the artist was classically trained at the Institute of Fine Arts from 2004–2008 but left his studies, continuing his art in public spaces since 2004 and adopting the name “DALeast” for his studio work. He has since become one of the most respected and prolific urban artists, creating murals in 50 countries across the globe. In his own words, he is “currently a human … and is inspired by the way the material world revolves, how the spiritual world unfolds, life’s emotions and the infinite space within us.”

ABOUT WEINSTEIN GALLERY:

Weinstein Gallery was established in 1992 and specializes in non-objective and Surrealist art from pre-war Europe through the New York School and Abstract Expressionism. The gallery represents the estates of Enrico Donati, Gerome Kamrowski, and David Hare, as well as Rudolf Bauer and Hassel Smith. Additionally, the gallery is recognized for its collection and commitment to the women of the Surrealist movement with an extensive collection of Leonor Fini and signature works by Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage, Stella Snead, Juanita Guccione, and Dorothea Tanning. The Surrealism collection includes major works by Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Roberto Matta, Oscar Domínguez, Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, and Kurt Seligmann.